Two share lead

CALCUTTA, AUG. 29. Top seeded Suvrajit Saha of Bengal and his state-mate second seeded IM Shankar Roy made it a two-way fight for supremacy winning their respective top table matches in the ninth round of the inaugural all-India FIDE rated chess meet here at the Khudiram Indoor Practice Centre on Tuesday.

Both Roy, who beat Bangladesh challenger Syed Ruhul Kabir, and Roy, who downed Bengal's Joydeb Saha, netted one point each to steer clear into leadership with 7.5 points.

Important results: Syed Ruhul Kabir (Bangla) 6.5 lost to Suvrajit Saha (Ben) 7.5, Shankar Roy (Ben) 7.5 bt Joydeb Saha (Ben) 6.5, Raj Sen (Ben) 6 lost to Ram Kumar Mishra (MP) 7, Hari Om Sharma (UP) 7 bt Arindam Mukherjee (Ben) 6, J. Deepan Chakkravarthy (TN) 7 bt Saptarshi Roy Chowdhuri (Ben) 6, Laltu Chatterjee (Ben) 6.5 bt Yanur Rehaman (Bangla) 6, Pranjal Das (Ben) 5.5 lost to Saifuddin (Bangla) 6.5, Kunal Chatterjee (Ben) 5.5 w/o Sujit Kumar Sinha (UP) 6.5, Dilip Das (Ben) 6 drew Dipanjan Das (Ben) 6, Debasish Mukherjee (Ben) 6.5 bt Jitendra Kumar Choudhary (Bih) 5.5, Ananda Kumar Ghosh (Ben) 6 bt Gouri Nath Banerjee (Ben) 5, Anirban Guha Roy (Ben) 6 bt Rupankar Nath (Ben) 5, Dushyant Das (Bih) 5.5 drew Arman Hossain Monir (Bangla) 5.5, Sanjoy Verma (Ben) 5.5 drew Manotosh Bhattacharya (Ben) 5.5, Arun Paul (Ben) 6 bt Niladri Sekhar Bhattacharya (Ben) 5.

- Our Sports Reporter

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